United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of amended complaint for breach of contract is reversed where the district court erred in applying Maryland's three-year statute of limitations and in refusing to apply the relation back afforded by Rule 15(c), Fed. R. Civ. P., when plaintiff named the corporate subsidiary as a defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2007
• Published 07/25/2007

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, TRAXLER, KING, GREGORY, SHEDD, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and WIDENER and WILKINS, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Thomas McCarthy, Jr., Thomas McCarthy, Sr. & Associates, P.C., Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellant.  Howard Robert Rubin, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Amy L. Bess, William E. Copley, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.